In the wake of the Las Vegas tragedy, I was surprised to read that Pat Robertson, 700 Club founder, extreme conservative, and all-around God supporter, has taken a position that will end in the termination of gun rights. From Right Wing Watch:
“Violence in the streets, ladies and gentlemen. Why is it happening?” he asked. “The fact that we have disrespect for authority; there is profound disrespect for our president, all across this nation they say terrible things about him. It’s in the news, it’s in other places. There is disrespect now for our national anthem, disrespect for our veterans, disrespect for the institutions of our government, disrespect for the court system. All the way up and down the line, disrespect.”
“Until there is biblical authority,” Robertson continued, “there has to be some controlling authority in our society and there is none. And when there is no vision of God, the people run amok … and we have taken from the American people the vision of God, the whole idea of reward and punishment, an ultimate judge of all our actions, we’ve taken that away. When there is no vision of God, the people run amok.”
The problem is that, if liberty is to be retained, then so must be free will, and history teaches us that “Biblical leadership” leads to more discord in society, not less.
Therefore, without a doubt there will be those who will take up arms against any such Biblical leader, regardless of sect, who tries to impose their interpretation of the Bible on American society.
And therefore guns will be outlawed by this Biblical leadership.
As ever, Pat should really be retired to a rest home. His reasoning capabilities – or perhaps his familiarity with realities which he dislikes – appear to be impaired. Unless he was condemning President Trump, as Trump is guilty of many of these disrespects, plus a few more.
Yeah, I’ll keep that in my heart. Or is that sinful?
